Arvakr and Alsvidro draw the Sun, as is written before; Hrímfaxi" or Fjörsvartnir" draw the Night; Skinfaxi" and Gladr are the Day's horses. 14 "These names of oxen are in Thorgrímr's Rhymes: I Watchful, Nimble, Ambling, or perhaps Hawk. 2 Related to Kerti a candle? 5 Horse; etymology? 8 Shining-Lip? (Jónsson). "Frosty-Mane. 14 Bright, or Glad. 15 Red. 3 Tumult. 6 9 Early-Wake. 12 Swart-Life. 4 Slinger. 7 Goth. 10 All-Swift. 13 Shining-Mane. 18 Gentle. Himinhrjódr1 and Apli,2 Arfr3 and Arfuni.* These are names of serpents: Dragon, Fáfnir, Mighty Monster, Adder, Nídhöggr, Lindworm, She-Adder, Góinn, Móinn, Grafvitnir,' Grábakr, Ófnir, Sváfnir, Hooded One. 5 5 Neat-Cattle: Cow, calf, oxen, heifer, yearling, steer, bull. Sheep: Ram, buck, ewe, lamb, wether. Swine: Sow, she-pig, boar, hog, suckling. LVIII. "What are the names of the air and of the winds? Air is called Yawning Void and Middle World, Bird-Abode, Wind-Abode. Wind is called Storm, Breeze, Gale, Tempest, Gust, Blowing. Thus does one read in Alsvinnsmál: Wind 't is called among menfolk, And Shouter elves call it; In Hel Clamorer 't is called. The Wind is also called Blast. LIX. "Two are those birds which there is no need to periphrase otherwise than by calling blood and corpses their Drink and Meat: these are the raven and the eagle. All other male birds may be periphrased in metaphors of blood ' Heaven-Bellowing, or perhaps Heaven-Destroyer. 2 Calf. 4 Heir; cf. with 3. or corpses; and then their names are terms of the eagle or the raven. As Thjódólfr sang: The Prince with Eagle's Barley Of the Eagle's Sea of corpses Stakes each shoal to the southward Which he wards, with the spear-point. These are names of the raven: Crow, Huginn,' Muninn,' With flesh the Host-Convoker Filled the feathered ravens: The raven, when spears were screaming, Einarr Skúlason: He who gluts the Gull of Hatred, But the King's heart swelleth, His spirit flushed with battle, I For the meaning of these names (which are those of Odin's Ravens), see Gylfag., ch. xxxviii. Where heroes shrink; dark Muninn As Víga-Glúmr sang: When stood the shielded Maidens As Skúli Thorsteinsson sang: Not the hindmost in the hundred I fed the wounds full grievous. The erne is called Eagle, Old One, Storm-Shearer, Inciter, Soarer, Wound-Shearer, Cock. As Einarr sang: With blood the lips he reddened With steel Erne's meat was furnished: The Eagle slit the Wolf's Bait. As Óttarr sang: The Erne swills corpse-drink, The She-wolf is sated, The Eagle there feedeth, Oft the wolf his fangs reddens. As Thjódólfr sang: The Spoiler of the Lady To meet the high God-Rulers, And as stands here: With skill will I rehearse Of the Storm-Shearer my verse. And again as Skúli sang: Early and late with sobbing The hawk of the Cock's blood-ocean: LX. "What are the names of the Sea? It is called Ocean, Main, Wintry, Lee, Deep, Way, Weir, Salt, Lake, Furtherer. As Arnórr sang, and as we have written above: Let men hear how the Earls' King, Failed not to resist the Main.2 Here it is named Sea, and Main also. "Ocean, as Hornklofi sang: I See page 130. When the man-scathing Meeter 2 See page 198. |